WASHINGTON – Authorities are investigating after a woman and a man were killed in the District overnight in separate incidents.
Police say a man was found shot in the doorway of an apartment building in the 5300 block of Astor Place in the Southeast just before 1 a.m. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Around the same time, officers responded to the 500 block of Benning Road in the Northeast where they found a woman dead after being stabbed in the hallway of an apartment building. Officers say she was stabbed in the chest.